Engineering Biological Time: Suspended Animation as a Model to Decode Energy–Time Regulation in Living Systems
Suspended animation represents an extreme yet reversible state of life arrest in which movement, development, and metabolic activity become microscopically undetectable. I will present our discovery of a newly inducible form of suspended animation in C. elegans, triggered by high population density in isosmotic liquids and occurring across larval and adult stages. This liquid-induced suspended ani...
2026-03-06